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The annual endowed Dudleian Lecture, the oldest and most prestigious endowed lecture at Harvard, was presented by Sister Mary Hughes, prioress of the Dominican Sisters of Amityville and former president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious. The...

Amy Hollywood discusses her recent publication, Acute Melancholia and Other Essays: Mysticism, History, and the Study of Religion. HDs professors Laura S. Nasrallah, Catherine Brekus, and Janet Gyatso serve as respondents.

Bhante Kusala says being a Buddhist monk at Harvard has its quirks. Leaning forward and adjusting his cinnamon-colored robe in the crowded Rock Café at HDS, the shaven-headed Kusala confided, "In this culture, people like to give a hug in friendship, but...

Kimberly Blockett, Visiting Associate Professor of Women's Studies and African American Religions, and Colorado Scholar from Penn State, Brandywine, presents “#sayhername: Recovering Zilpha Elaw’s Rebellious Evangelicalism." Listen

"At Mass we have the opportunity to deepen what we hear and think through prayer and petition, praise and worship, culminating in sharing at the altar in the Eucharistic Body and Blood of Christ," writes Professor Francis X. Clooney, in the second part of...

Benjamin Crockett, MTS candidate, spent a week in Lebanon serving with Jesuit Refugee Service to document life in a refugee camp. He believes that true storytelling is putting oneself in others' shoes.

"The pandemic will become a matter of history, but the starker choice before us won’t go away: shall we be blind to our neighbors in need, bothered when their humanity and rich complexity become too evident, wed more to our ordinary ways of doing things...

"Dietrich Bonhoeffer reminds us that the world desperately needs honest followers of Christ who speak truth to power, risk their necks to help those in trouble, refuse to play it safe when fundamental human values have been scorned and pushed aside, when...

HDS Professor Todne Thomas writes that the moral exceptionalism that was extended to Trump by evangelicals around the issue of family values was not just an act of grace; it was an example of a moral program working as it has in the past through religious...

HDS students Liz Aeschlimann, Natalie Malter, David Price, and Tim Seery deliver sermons for the Billings Preaching Prize Competition during Noon Service on April 13, 2016. In addition, Melissa Coles, the Massachusetts Bible Society scripture reading...

Marla Frederick, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Religion, discusses her recent publication, Colored Television: American Religion Gone Global. Listen iTunes SoundCloud

A panel of HDS faculty launches the bicentennial of HDS by discussing the outcome of the 200-year history of the School: a multireligious divinity school. Audio